What are we to make of the Apollo 11 mission on its 50th anniversary?

Jill Lapor will be here to talk about seven new books that look back at the historic moment

and its repercussions.

What would New York be without the plaza?

Julie St. Howe joins us to talk about the secret life of America's most famous hotel.

Alexander Altair will give us an update from the publishing world.

Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is the Bookerview Podcast for The New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Jill Lapor joins us now.

She is the author of many books, including most recently, This America, and before that

these truths, she is a professor of American history at Harvard University and a staff writer

for The New Yorker Magazine.

And on top of all of that, she reviewed seven books for us this week in The Bookerview

about the anniversary of the Apollo moon landing.

Jill, thanks so much for being here.

Hey, thank you for having me.

So every time there's an anniversary and a 50th anniversary is a big one, there are the

books that come.

We sent you a slew of them and you reviewed seven of them.

That's not even all of the ones that are coming out at this time.

And I want to talk about those books a little bit specifically, but also sort of the Apollo

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